Claire and I loaded our traps into the Pilchard mobile for another happy adventure this morning. Our destination a cottage in the middle of nowhere off a beaten farm track full of potholes with no parking.
Traps set we wandered back down the lane to the car to sit and wait, luckily it wasnt too long before first kitten went in,we transferred her to our crush cage rebaited the trap and headed towards the car with the kitten, mother cat and remaining kitten were soon trapped and we just managed to get down the lane in time to stop a passing farmer from releasing them. Farmers wife a nasty piece of goods tells us get everything out the way and shut the gate to the cottage, our mother cat and her kittens were in two carriers on one side of the lane and we were on the other as the thundering sound of running sheep sped between us, we know the true meaning of a Sheep Run now. Nasty Farmers wife then tells us chase down lane to farmer who is on his bike and talk to him because she thinks there are more kittens; well we caught up with the farmer just as he was setting a calf trap,thankfully there were no more kittens but he was a lovely though henpecked man who was able to tell us that the mother cat was a domestic who had been dumped there some time ago.We learnt that a calf run was about to begin and sped off hopefully never to return.
We have called the cats Isabella (mum) shes lovely though very greedy and looks pregnant.
Kittens are Larry the Lamb, and Daisy after the cows,they are around 13weeks and very wild.
Forgot to mention we were out last night too and completed our work at a different colony as mum has been spayed by us already, we caught the last 2 kittens, Lily and Tom 2 gorgeous little spitfires.
Tonight well at 1am to be precise when a very unsavoury pub closes we our out again as it seems some feral kittens are stuck under the pub decking too young to get out and no mum around to feed them but thats another tale for another day
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